Davies (crater)

Davies is a crater on Mars located at 46°N 0°E on the fringe of Acidalia Planitia near Arabia Terra.

The crater's name was formally approved by the IAU in 2006.

[1] It was named in honor of Merton Davies (1917–2001), a pioneer in the cartography of planetary bodies.

An employee of the RAND Corporation, he assisted NASA in mapping Mars with colleagues Gérard de Vaucouleurs and Harold Masursky and defined the prime meridian of Mars as passing through the crater Airy-0.

This article about an impact crater on Mars or its moons is a stub.

Davies crater, MRO CTX camera
Viking Orbiter 2 mosaic showing the crater and its extensive ejecta